1 Feb
2021
1 Feb
'21
10:59 a.m.
From: Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>
Numbering of bits in a word is also interesting. Is the high order bit
in a 64 bit word, bit 0 or bit 63? Both conventions have been employed.
This one
has always boggled me, because it's the one aspect of the
Endian Wars where there's a simple, straightforward answer grounded in
basic mathematics - base ^ digit-number only gives the correct
place-value when the lowest-order bit is numbered zero. It's beyond my
ken how anybody thought the reverse was *valid,* let alone a good
idea.